Unable to type in Hiragana (ONLY in Utau)

xshugarrx

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hey all, I'm having an odd issue (again.) last time, the issue seemed to fix itself, but alas it's back. I have my locale set and keyboards installed, so let's skip right over that. part of me honestly wonders if Windows 10 is the issue, given I never had this problem on 7 and the win10 keyboards are buggy af... but I digress.

I'm unable to type hiragana (or any japanese, really) in UTAU. when my keyboard is set to JP, it still only types English characters as if I have English selected. problem is, it seems to be only in UTAU. clicking away to another window, like a web browser, I can type JP just fine. so what gives? I've tried running UTAU in admin (I always try and remember to do that), restarting my computer (sometimes that fixes it) and a myriad of other things like messing about in windows settings to no avail. thoughts? it's extremely tedious to use the romanji>hiragana converter as I still have to copy-paste certain characters that it either doesn't convert at all or doesn't convert to the exact sample I'm looking for.
 

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Are you using microsoft IME input to try and type? typically you select the typebox THEN change to Japanese keyboard (win10 shortcut for this is alt+shift so JP keyboard is selected, then shift+capslock to cycle between roma/kana). Once you do this, it should stick for the session.
 

xshugarrx

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Are you using microsoft IME input to try and type? typically you select the typebox THEN change to Japanese keyboard (win10 shortcut for this is alt+shift so JP keyboard is selected, then shift+capslock to cycle between roma/kana). Once you do this, it should stick for the session.
yes, I use IME. that's usually how i do it, minus the keyboard shortcuts bc I didn't know them. but using the keyboard shortcuts seems to have fixed the issue! thank you!
 
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yes, I use IME. that's usually how i do it, minus the keyboard shortcuts bc I didn't know them. but using the keyboard shortcuts seems to have fixed the issue! thank you!
I recommend sticking to the shortcuts. In my experience, it can be finicky if you don't! I used to have the same issue, virtually never had it though with the shortcuts.
 
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xshugarrx

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that's so weird! I swear UTAU is the only program I've ever encountered this with. I'm glad the solution is so simple tho
I recommend sticking to the shortcuts. In my experience, it can be finicky if you don't! I used to have the same issue, virtually never had it though with the shortcuts.
 

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